So I've had my Apollo's for a little while now and like most people here, I am thrilled to have them in my apartment! Currently running 4 of them - 1 with a controller, 3 without. My question it this - I have them connected to a pool but using the controller's UI via FireFox - I am only able to have these connect to a pool as 1 worker. All of the other miners I use have individual assignable worker names - so should there be an issue, its easy to identify which miner is problematic without actually being at home and staring at the screen. Is there a way to have each apollo connect to the pool as it's own miner while running them all connected to the unit with a controller? Or would I have to use external controllers for each standard unit to achieve this.
Not sure if it's supported in the web UI, but you can name each worker using the pool username field. Usually pools allow you to give names to each worker by appending a dot(.) and then the worker name to the username of the pool. Something like this: ./apollo-miner -host POOL_URL -port POOL_PORT -user POOL_USERNAME.WORKER1_NAME -pswd x -comport /dev/ttyACM0 etc...
./apollo-miner -host POOL_URL -port POOL_PORT -user POOL_USERNAME.WORKER2_NAME -pswd x -comport /dev/ttyACM1 etc...
./apollo-miner -host POOL_URL -port POOL_PORT -user POOL_USERNAME.WORKER3_NAME -pswd x -comport /dev/ttyACM2 etc...
etc...
You would only need one computer to name those 4 workers. Each one would just be another call of the apollo-miner binary with its name and specific parameters. |
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Hi Royse777,
I just got accepted in another signature campaign, so I will be off your bounty pool. All the best!
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Accepted. Please change your signature & Avatar. No members will be accepted in this week. New members will be take for next weeks
Thanks, signature & avatar updated. Once I get Sr Member status in a couple of days I'll update the signature to the Sr Member one to start off the next week with that one. |
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These miners are awesome. I have an Arctic Breeze Mobile fan which is keeping things cool, but it's a bit noisy.  Now I'm on a mission to reduce the fan noise as much as possible. I wonder if it would be possible to run them with a passive heatsink like this one:  Probably mechanical stability would be the main issue with that one!  |
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I knew my newly connected USB miner would make a difference!
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Bitcoin is the best coin in crypto and as the years passed by there are a lot of coins (altcoins) that is more profitable in terms of investment on both short and long term process, in you're future sights and speculation of btc based on some good promising projects that is now scattering and has a posibility to move to next level in the near future, Can there will be a coin that can manage to surpass btc 10 years from now?
The next Bitcoin is Bitcoin. There are 2 countries that have it as legal tender(El Salvador and Central African Republic), and more are starting to remove tax from it (Paraguay). This is the beginning of a huge wave of adoption across the world. Nothing else comes even close. The largest volume in altcoins are simply stablecoins, which are basically a digital version of fiat. |
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You see, this is the problem, and the example of Wikipedia is a good one. Everyone comments here and there that it's "wonderful" and a big step when a company accepts Bitcoin. It's all well and good, but the reality is nobody uses it. In terms of return on investment, why would a company bother adding an option if nobody uses it? So it may be great to start by admitting that most people are only interested in crypto for speculation. And a lot of you here too. That's not the purpose of a cryptocurrency at all. Everything else (technology, decentralization, privacy) people don't care about at all. By the way, Cryptocurrency investors are psychopaths, study finds  If you think Amazon for example will start to add BTC as a payment option I can tell you the Apocalypse will be faster to come. There are very few places where people actually use it, such as i.e. Venezuela with its inflation, the Iranian government, or other countries seeking to evade economic sanctions...If we remove the reasons for politics, geopolitics, and economics, what is left? Almost nothing. According to the 2021 financial year, the donations in bitcoins represented a value of only 0.08% of the foundation's revenues the community has been voting on the issue since January 2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations#VotingOver 70% voted to stop accepting cryptocurrencies for the donations (unsigned contributions and new accounts were not taken into account to avoid attempts to manipulate votes) And as donations have been possible since 2014 or 2015, I think people have had enough time to do something. It's a bit sad for Wikipedia, personally, it's one of my favorite sites where I can spend hours on it You can buy stuff from Amazon with Bitcoin today. You even get a discount. Not directly, but through 3rd party websites, like https://purse.io/shop for example. Their business model is to match Amazon gift card owners with people that want to buy in Amazon with Bitcoin: Purse matches Amazon Gift Card holders with Shoppers. Shoppers receive a discount and Earners receive cryptocurrency. |
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If you think about it, the reasons why the price of Bitcoin, and more importantly the purchasing power of it, has continued to go up over the years remain valid today, and into the future.
Bitcoin has a limited supply, and every year there's more and more demand for it. This will probably continue to happen.
People were saying the same when Bitcoin was priced at $1k, and at every other milestone. It will always feel like it's too expensive because it's an ever appreciating asset. It's designed to be like that.
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Bitcointalk Username: nullama Profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3336840Post Count (including this one): 464 BTC Address : bc1qqz73mg5ype7uhergk8et26kuealcmxhmsxp387 Earned merit in 120 days : 130 Forum Rank : Full Member today, turning into Sr Member this week Will update avatar and signature if accepted. |
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Just a heads up solochance works again when you enter your CK address.
what is solochance? It's a website that tells you the probability of finding a block when solo mining. You can either put the hashes per second you have or just paste any ckpool url and it will tell you the numbers. |
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Mine arrived yesterday The most quiet/efficient/cheap? miner I've used so far. I've tried the 3 "default" modes and i'm pretty sure I saw more than 3.5TH on "Turbo" mode, fantastic And with a rasp pi and all the cables hidden behind it's like a tiny cube in my room. Edit: Quick question. I'm using the 'official' 200w psu. In the sh it says to put the power value at 75 max with this psu. How much TH would be with 100? Which psu should I use for that? (I mean I could use the corsair sf450 but im pretty sure that 450W 80+ would be overkill) It will vary from device to device a bit but I'm getting 1.3TH/s with 30% of the power (even lower than ECO). If you use a PSU with a higher rating it will run its fan slower so you will get it even quieter than the official PSU, which now generates most of the noise in my setup. I'm waiting for a new, more quiet PSU to replace it to get an almost completely silent mining setup. This device is awesome for home mining. |
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Thanks @jstefanop for making this nice device. It works and looks great. I'm trying to make the Apollo run at it's absolutely quietest setting, even below ECO. It would be awesome if you could answer a few questions I have about it. ECO: This is the most efficient, quiet, and low power mode. Your Apollo will mine at about 2TH/s in this mode and consume about 120 Watts. The fan should be barely audible in this mode.
Based on the documentation, ECO is set to: -brd_ocp 48 -osc 30. board power - this controls power/voltage for the board in %. It ranges from 30-95
board frequency - this controls the hashboard's frequency. It ranges from 30-60
Since I would like to run it even lower, I set brd_ocp to 30 and kept osc at 30(both minimums based on the documentation), this nicely decreases the fan speed (and sound) as expected. My understanding is that the -osc parameter shouldn't affect the fan speed, and only brd_ocp would affect it. Is that correct? One thing that I don't understand is why the minimum brd_ocp is 30?, would it be safe to run it at even lower numbers?, I'm aware that the hashrate will be reduced of course, but I'm mainly concerned about the hardware functioning properly at it's absolutely lowest value (for example, would it be possible to run it so low that the fans are not needed?). Also, I noticed there's another fan in the "official" power supply. Since I'm planning to run it with very low power, I wonder if that fan is even needed as that's now the main contributor of noise. I guess I could buy another PSU without a fan for this "silent miner" project. Any suggestions for one? So far I've found this one, which should run without starting the fan until 220W so it should be absolutely noiseless. |
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If you buy bitcoin, would you be taxed? No. If you mine bitcoin, then you will also not be taxed. Miners will pay for electricity but have their coins with them until they want to sell it. The tax will also be like those that buy bitcoin and want to sell it, the tax is certain percentage of the capital gain. The tax (percentage of the capital gain) differs from country to country.
Buying Bitcoin is different though. When you buy Bitcoin you're effectively buying an asset. That of course is not taxed. In most countries there's also an income tax. If you obtain Bitcoin through an activity, for example working for Bitcoin, or mining, etc, that is considered income, and taxed accordingly. |
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The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed |
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Let's say you solo mined a block, and you get the reward and fees. How do you deal with taxes? For example, the current block paid a total of 6.27 BTC, which at the moment is $247,488. From what I understand, that would be considered income, and you would be taxed accordingly. In some countries that amount would put you in the highest bracket, where you would have to pay a high percentage in tax, say 40-50%. What can you do in that situation?, sell half and keep the cash for tax? Wait hoping that it would raise in value and sell later when tax time comes? Am I missing something, or basically every single miner that is solo mining ends up paying about half of it in taxes? |
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How does it work if you sell at a KYC exchange and you pay taxes. But you say you bought it from someone IRL for 70k but you sold at 100k (hypothetically)
I've heard that unless you have proof, they'll treat it as if you bought it at 0 dollars? Is that true?
So you could end up paying more in taxes than you actually bought it for?
If so, how is that fair?
Why is bitcoin treated like this but buying gold or silver or metals, you can buy for like 20 bucks an ounce of silver, it shoots up to 50 and you sell a crap ton. They seem to be okay with paper receipts so is it really different with bitcoin? Idk...
You need to have some form of proof. This is the same with everything. Imagine someone buys and sells stuff with cash, they also need to provide some kind of proof. It might be paper invoices, whatever. As long as you report what you actually paid and received, and you have some kind of proof of it, there shouldn't be any issues. |
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Congratulations to bc1q0pd359kfxh93esgntxa6esxtjy3s9rhuqdn02m! [2022-04-27 04:17:12.143] Possible block solve diff 37038102498404.531250 !
[2022-04-27 04:17:12.211] BLOCK ACCEPTED!
[2022-04-27 04:17:12.213] Solved and confirmed block 733739 by bc1q0pd359kfxh93esgntxa6esxtjy3s9rhuqdn02m
[2022-04-27 04:17:12.213] User bc1q0pd359kfxh93esgntxa6esxtjy3s9rhuqdn02m:{"hashrate1m": "60.7T", "hashrate5m": "61.3T", "hashrate1hr": "62.8T", "hashrate1d": "63.3T", "hashrate7d": "62.5T"}
[2022-04-27 04:17:12.213] Worker bc1q0pd359kfxh93esgntxa6esxtjy3s9rhuqdn02m:{"hashrate1m": "60.7T", "hashrate5m": "61.3T", "hashrate1hr": "62.8T", "hashrate1d": "63.3T", "hashrate7d": "62.5T"}
[2022-04-27 04:17:12.250] Block solved after 47330132229632 shares at 167.7% diff
This is proof that solo mining is still alive and well. Congratulations! |
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Since you can't mine Bitcoin with them, you might get better suggestions at the Alt-Mining section |
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Ufffff, how complicated.
So in the Antiminer panel that indicates, Diff, Prioritiy, Accepted, Diffa, DiffR, Rejected, Stale, LSDiff, LSTime, it is of no use.
I understand that with a 104Th S19J pro it is very difficult to find a block, isn't it?
I have seen that the last miner who found a block with CKpool had only been mining in Ckpool.... for 1 week.
The chances of you finding a block in one day with that S19J pro at 104TH/s is 1 in 13,491.7. [1]. Since it's all based on probabilities, you can find a block in the first try, after a week, or never finding it. But the more hashes you do, the more chances you have to finding it. [1]: http://tradebtc.net/bitcalc.php |
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Here are a few interesting projects/websites that use lightning in one way or another: Stacker News. Read news, and get some sats with lightning through votes, posts, comments, etc.  SolDirac. A Q/A website that pays you sats via lightning to answer questions. Anyone can post questions and answers to them.  Lightning network explorer. Cool map showing public lightning nodes all around the world.  Sphinx. Decentralized chat/social media/etc, you can even sell your texts/photos/media out of the box. All using sats.  Juggernaut. Also a decentralized chat/social media/etc, similar to Sphinx.  zebedee API. API to use sats as micro-payments in games.  bitcoinfax. If you ever need to send a fax, you can do it with lightning.  lnsms. Send an SMS worldwide with lightning.  Alby. Use lightning in the browser. You can authenticate (no more user/pass), and make lightning transactions right from your browser. No need to switch between apps or creating invoices. All works seamlessly.  Happy ⚡! |
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